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Beating AI Express (Dongcha) – According to the latest internal news, ByteDance recently held a briefing on Doubao shares, raising the price from $14.85 in June to $17.02, a 14.6% increase over two months. Meanwhile, some employees can adjust their compensation structure by converting a portion of their total cash package into Doubao shares, with conversion limits varying by individual. The report notes that some L2 and L3 employees have a maximum allocation ratio of 20%, while some L3 and L4 employees can reach 25% or 30%. ByteDance also increased Doubao share grants, with some employees receiving additional allocations of around 5% of their total compensation package. This policy does not cover all staff, applying mainly to teams working on Seed’s pre-training, multimodal, Vision Language Model (VLM) and other large models, as well as the main Doubao App under Flow. Some teams closely tied to Seed and the Doubao base, such as Ark, may also receive Doubao shares. Doubao shares are an internal virtual equity incentive designed by ByteDance for its AI business. The first repurchase price was $13.08 in April, rising to $14.85 in June. In May, some Seed employees were already given the option to convert their year-end bonuses into Doubao shares. With the further opening of total cash package conversion this time, employees can allocate more of their income directly to the Doubao business. Calculated from the April price of $13.08, Doubao shares have risen by 30.1% cumulatively so far. In the same period from April to June, Doubao shares increased by 13.5%, while ByteDance Group options only rose by around 2.6%.

Serenity published a post stating that OpenAI is stockpiling tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio units for reinforcement learning tasks. Anthropic, meanwhile, is renting Apple Mac minis from Amazon to carry out similar AI work. Serenity quipped that Apple appears to have "accidentally become a major winner of the AI boom without taking any direct action". Additionally, on August 27, Anthropic partnered with Raspberry Pi to launch a new model hardware standard. No information has yet emerged indicating that either Anthropic or OpenAI is purchasing Raspberry Pi devices for similar tasks.

According to the New York Post, 20-year-old Barron Trump currently leads a reclusive life under tight security. The report states that Barron recently completed his sophomore year at New York University and spent this summer primarily residing with his mother Melania Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey. Citing sources, the outlet says Barron "rarely goes out" and tends to avoid public settings. Donald Trump has faced at least three assassination threats or attempted attacks since July 2024; recently, Iranian hardliners released a threat video targeting Barron and offered a $10 million bounty for his whereabouts. The New York Post notes Barron was also affected by the 2025 assassination of Charlie Kirk. Meanwhile, he has started engaging in business activities, including launching a herbal energy drink business with a high school friend and investing in cryptocurrency.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), Fasanara Capital transferred a total of approximately $7.8 million to its Hyperliquid account in four separate transactions this morning to add margin to its existing positions. At the time of the first deposit, its largest position was an ETH short order valued at around $73.283 million, posting a massive loss of roughly $10.575 million. As of press time, the whale’s total open positions have a notional value of about $177 million, all of which are short positions, with an overall unrealized loss of approximately $8.6647 million. The ETH short position alone amounts to 29,494.8672 ETH, valued at roughly $71.9244 million, with an unrealized loss of around $9.1068 million and a liquidation price of approximately $3,854.2. On-chain perpetual contract (perp) and address analysis tool TradingBeats is now live, supporting real-time viewing of Hyperliquid data, tracing whale operations from addresses, and delivering in-depth, comprehensive analysis.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), a HYPE spot whale with an address starting with 0x0a84 has been continuously reducing its positions today. Between 9:49 and 13:49 Beijing time, it sold a total of 11,113 HYPE for approximately $893,200, at an average execution price of around $80.37. In the past half hour, the address sold an additional 1,588.95 HYPE, generating ~$128,400 in turnover. The latest sell occurred at 13:49, after which it still placed a spot sell order for 26.14 HYPE at $81.055, meaning the position reduction has not yet fully halted. The completed sales have yielded a total profit of ~$429,700, with fees of about $221. As of press time, the address still holds 247,555.22 HYPE, valued at roughly $20.059 million, and its remaining spot holdings are approximately 22 times the amount sold in this 4-hour period. Additionally, on-chain Perpetual (Perp) and address analysis tool TradingBeats is now live, supporting real-time viewing of Hyperliquid data, tracing whale operations from addresses, and providing in-depth analysis at a glance.

According to Caixin, Han Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group and Chairman of Alipay, delivered systematic insights on the global exploration path of AI-powered payments at the China Payment Clearing Forum. He noted that AI payments have basically formed four exploration paths: payment technology and infrastructure platforms represented by Stripe; crypto enterprises represented by Circle and Coinbase, which mainly rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, use cryptocurrencies as payment media, and directly support automated machine-to-machine payment scenarios; traditional payment networks represented by the two major card organizations (Visa, Mastercard); and AI platform enterprises such as Google and OpenAI.